PIMMS: photonic integrated multimode microspectrograph

Joss Bland-Hawthorn; Jon Lawrence; Gordon Robertson; Sam Campbell; Ben Pope; Chris Betters; Sergio Leon-Saval; Tim Birks; Roger Haynes; Nick Cvetojevic; Nem Jovanovic

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PIMMS: photonic integrated multimode microspectrograph

Joss Bland-Hawthorn^*, Jon Lawrence, Gordon Robertson, Sam Campbell, Ben Pope, Chris Betters, Sergio Leon-Saval, Tim Birks, Roger Haynes, Nick Cvetojevic, Nem Jovanovic

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We present the first integrated multimode photonic spectrograph, a device we call PIMMS #1. The device comprises a set of multimode fibres that convert to single-mode propagation using a matching set of photonic lanterns. These feed to a stack of cyclic array waveguides (AWGs) that illuminate a common detector. Such a device greatly reduces the size of an astronomical instrument at a fixed spectroscopic resolution. Remarkably, the PIMMS concept is largely independent of the telescope diameter, input focal ratio and entrance aperture - i.e. one size fits all! The instrument architecture can also exploit recent advances in astrophotonics (e.g. OH suppression fibres). We present a movie of the instrument's operation and discuss the advantages and disadvantages of this approach.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Ground-based and airborne instrumentation for astronomy III
Editors	Ian S. McLean, Suzanne K. Ramsay, Hideki Takami
Place of Publication	Bellingham, WA
Publisher	SPIE
Pages	1-9
Number of pages	9
Volume	7735, Part One of Four Parts
ISBN (Print)	9780819482259
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856347
Publication status	Published - Jul 2010
Event	Ground-Based and Airborne Instrumentation for Astronomy III - San Diego, CA, United States Duration: 27 Jun 2010 → 2 Jul 2010

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Country/Territory	United States
City	San Diego, CA
Period	27/06/10 → 2/07/10

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Bland-Hawthorn, J., Lawrence, J., Robertson, G., Campbell, S., Pope, B., Betters, C., Leon-Saval, S., Birks, T., Haynes, R., Cvetojevic, N., & Jovanovic, N. (2010). PIMMS: photonic integrated multimode microspectrograph. In I. S. McLean, S. K. Ramsay, & H. Takami (Eds.), Ground-based and airborne instrumentation for astronomy III (Vol. 7735, Part One of Four Parts, pp. 1-9). [77350N] SPIE. https://doi.org/10.1117/12.856347

Bland-Hawthorn, Joss ; Lawrence, Jon ; Robertson, Gordon ; Campbell, Sam ; Pope, Ben ; Betters, Chris ; Leon-Saval, Sergio ; Birks, Tim ; Haynes, Roger ; Cvetojevic, Nick ; Jovanovic, Nem. / PIMMS : photonic integrated multimode microspectrograph. Ground-based and airborne instrumentation for astronomy III. editor / Ian S. McLean ; Suzanne K. Ramsay ; Hideki Takami. Vol. 7735, Part One of Four Parts Bellingham, WA : SPIE, 2010. pp. 1-9

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